Soren kierkegaard a biography garff audit

xxv, pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

Garff offers a detailed & incisive portrait of Søoren Kierkegaard, the philosopher, whose works had an enormous influence upon existentialism & postmodernism

Includes bibliographical references (pages ) and index

I. -- The little fork -- Warping -- Soren sock -- Two weddings and a fire -- Studiosus Severinus -- Alma Mater -- Underground Copenhagen -- The black sheep -- II. -- The still voices of the dead -- The summer of in Gilleleje -- "To find the idea for which I am willing to live and die" -- III. -- "A somersault into the Siberia of freedom of the press" -- Within the Heibergs' charmed circle -- Studiosis Faustus -- The battle between the old and new soap-cellars -- Poul martin Moller -- "Sketches of oral nature" -- affectation and self-deception -- "Backstage practice" -- IV. -- Storm and stress? -- Maria -- Bringing gloom to rented rooms -- "Dear Emil!! My friend, the only one" -- Reading binge -- V. -- "There is an indescribable joy" -- Death of a merchant -- "The great earthquake" -- From the papers of one still living -- VI. -- The rich young man -- The translator -- "My reading for the examinations is the longest parenthesis" -- A dandy on pilgrimage -- VII. -- Regine -- in memoriam -- Miss O -- From the papers of one already dead -- The time of terrors -- "She chooses the shriek, I choose the pain" -- VIII. -- On the concept of irony -- IX. -- Stark naked in Berlin -- "The aesthetic is above all my element" -- The incidental tourist -- X. -- Either/or -- "A monster of a book" -- Literary exile -- Spiritual eroticism -- Regine's nod -- Berlin again -- Repetition -- "Long live the post horn!" -- To become oneself again is to become someone else -- Reality intervenes -- -- The retracted text -- Fear and trembling -- Abraham and the knife: Agnete and Farinelli -- "A crevice through which the infinite peeped out" -- XI. -- The concept of anxiety -- Captivating anxiety -- pages from a seducer's textbook -- The seduction's diary -- Oh, to write a preface -- Reviews -- Israel Levin -- "Come over and see me for a bit" -- To have faith is always to expect the joyous, the happy, the good

XII. -- "Big enough to be a major city" -- "I came close to dancing with them" -- "People bath" -- "Yes, of course, I am an aristocrat -" -- "I think Grundtvig is nonsense" -- Kierkegaard in church -- "People think I'm a hack writer" -- Stages on life's way -- The inserted passages -- Writing samples -- Exit Heiberg -- Postscript: Kierkegaard -- XIII. -- Victor Eremita's admirers -- The Corsair -- "A devil of a paper" -- Comic composition and Goldschmidt's flashy jacket -- "I am a Jew. What am I doing among you?" -- Malice in a Macintosh: Peder Ludvig Moller -- "A visit to Soro" -- "Would only that I might soon appear in The Corsair" -- The Corsair's salvo -- Moller's postscript to Kierkegaard's postscript -- Admiration and envy: When one word leads to another -- The squint-eyed hunchback -- The great reversal -- "The school of abuse" -- The neighbors across the way -- "S. Kjerkegaard and his reviewers" -- "This sweat-soaked, stifling cloak of mush that is the body" -- The bull of Phalaris -- "What does the physician really know?" -- "For I have loved my melancholia" -- Adolph Peter Adler -- The book on Adler -- "Confusion-making of the highest order" -- Saint Paul and Carpetmaker Hansen -- Exaltation: ; ; -- "The sensual pleasure of productivity" -- Graphomania -- Rad. Valeriana -- XIV. -- "perhaps you would also like me to listen to your brain beating?" -- The press: "The government's filth machine" -- To travel is to write -- and vice versa -- "The air bath" -- Either and or -- Regine Schlegel -- "A people's government is the true image of hell" -- "This is the idea of the religious" -- ", rumbling nonhumans" -- "Perhaps the alarm will be sounded in the camp and I will be the manhandled victim" -- "You are expecting a tyrant, while I am expecting a martyr" -- God hates pyramids -- Liberty, equality, and mercy -- From the financial papers of one still living -- Money in books -- "Year after year, at my own expense."

XV. -- Extravagance in the service of the idea -- "Copenhagen is a very filthy town" -- The sickness unto death -- "To poetize God into something a bit different" -- "The poetry of eternity" -- To publish or not to publish -- The point of view for my work as an author -- "what hasn't this pen been capable of ?" -- "But then, of course, I cannot say 'I'" -- In charge of his own posthumous reputation -- "My father died -- then I got another father in his place" -- "I am regarded as a kind of Englishman, a half-mad eccentric" -- XVI. -- Dedications and a rebuff -- Martensen's Dogmatics -- A Sunday in the Athenaeum -- Rasmus Neilsen -- Fredrika Bremer's report card -- Kierkegaard's dream -- The sealed letter to Mr. and Mrs. Schlegel -- "Come again another time" -- Jakob Peter Mynster -- "When I look at Mynster -" -- Two ethical-religious essays -- The will to powerlessness -- The ventriloquist who said "I" -- The poet of martyrdom: The martyrdom of the poet -- "Dr. Exstaticus" -- XVII. -- Eight ways not to say good-bye -- Moving days -- Practice in Christianity -- "Blasphemous toying with what is holy" -- The idiot God -- and his times -- The voices of the scandalized -- "And why, then, this concealment?" -- XVIII. -- "That line about Goldschmidt was fateful" -- Kierkegaard in the Citadel Church -- Fan mail -- The dedication to Regine -- A theological village idiot -- XIX. -- "She came walking as if from the Lime Kiln" -- The final apartment -- XX. -- A life in the underworld -- Nielsen: A demonic scoundrel -- "One day I saw the corpse bus come" -- "The prices must be jacked up in the salon" -- S.A. versus A.S. -- "Christianity is the invention of Satan" -- XXI. -- The death of a witness to the truth -- "-That is how a witness to the truth is buried!" -- "To bring about a catastrophe" -- "A devil of a witness to the truth" -- XXII. -- "My opponent is a glob of snot" -- Virginie and Regine -- to lose what is most precious -- "Quite simply: I want honesty" -- "Therefore, take the pseudonymity away" -- The moment -- "Then that poet suddenly transformed himself" -- Out with inwardness! -- "The pastor -- that epitome of nonsense cloaked in long robes!" -- The death of God -- Grundtvig's rejoinder -- "Pastor P. Chr. Kierkegaard, Lic. Theol., my brother" -- "In a theater, it happened that" -- "Come listen, brilliant bastard son" -- "You dine with the swine" -- Patient No. -- Postmortem -- A little corpse with nowhere to go -- The will, the auctions, and a psychopathic missionary -- The papers no one wanted -- Peter Christian's misery -- The woman among the graves

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